US Patent Issued to Maplebear on Nov. 3 for "Using a language model to create online orders from online calendar data" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,979, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using a language model to create online orders from online calendar data" was invented by Xuan Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vinesh Reddy Gudla (South San Francisco, Calif.), Shishir Kumar Prasad (San Ramon, Calif.), Haixun Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Brandon Leonardo (Redwood City, Calif.) and Maxwell Mullen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system uses a language model to create online orders from online calendar data shared by a user of the online system. The online system generates a first prompt for input into the language model including infor...